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Title: Environmentally responsive optical microstructured hybrid actuator assemblies and applications thereof

Abstract

Microstructured hybrid actuator assemblies in which microactuators carrying designed surface properties to be revealed upon actuation are embedded in a layer of responsive materials. The microactuators in a microactuator array reversibly change their configuration in response to a change in the environment without requiring an external power source to switch their optical properties.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1234686
Patent Number(s):
9229218
Application Number:
13/990,385
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B29 - WORKING OF PLASTICS B29D - PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B81 - MICROSTRUCTURAL TECHNOLOGY B81B - MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS, e.g. MICROMECHANICAL DEVICES
DOE Contract Number:  
SC0005247
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2011 Nov 29
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 42 ENGINEERING

Citation Formats

Aizenberg, Joanna, Aizenberg, Michael, and Kim, Philseok. Environmentally responsive optical microstructured hybrid actuator assemblies and applications thereof. United States: N. p., 2016. Web.
Aizenberg, Joanna, Aizenberg, Michael, & Kim, Philseok. Environmentally responsive optical microstructured hybrid actuator assemblies and applications thereof. United States.
Aizenberg, Joanna, Aizenberg, Michael, and Kim, Philseok. Tue . "Environmentally responsive optical microstructured hybrid actuator assemblies and applications thereof". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1234686.
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